City Mental Health Alliance Hong Kong

City Mental Health Alliance Hong Kong

About Us

The City Mental Health Alliance – Hong Kong is a collaborative venture founded by city businesses. Championed by senior leaders, the Alliance is business led and expert guided and aims to create a culture of good mental health for workers in the city of Hong Kong, share best practice and increase mental health understanding.​

Everyone has mental health in the same way as everyone has physical health. We believe businesses can take a leading role as influencers to help to drive the strategy on mental health for businesses and the broader HK community. Our vision is to help workers at all levels talk about mental health without fear of stigma. We wish for mental health to be recognised as a boardroom issue and considered essential to maximise business performance, critical to managing business risk and vital to safeguarding organisations’ people responsibilities. We believe that prevention should be recognised as equally as important as treatment to address mental health problems.

Established in Hong Kong in 2017, we exist and operate within the global principles of the CMHA but our approach is adapted specifically to the Hong Kong context.

our activities

Research and data collection

We conduct bespoke research with employees from individual firms and across Hong Kong companies to provide comprehensive reliable data to understand Hong Kong’s unique challenges, track change, and inform individual workplace strategy. Our research is under-pinned by academic principles and we collaborate with the University of Hong Kong and Oliver Wyman Management Consultancy to ensure our work is evidence based.

We have worked with leading organisations including Black Dog Institute in Australia and Mind HK to develop high quality mental health training programs tailored to staff in the corporate workplace. Please see our Training page for further information.

Toolkits and resources

Our members collaborate and work together to develop tools and resources specifically tailored and designed to support the business community on workplace mental health.

We hold regular networking events and seminars with international speakers designed to share best practice and inform CMHA HK members and the wider community on the latest topics and research on workplace mental health. See our events calendar or more details.

Media

Selectively collaborating and engaging in work as business leaders and influencers in Hong Kong.

Information

Regularly providing members with the latest news, information and research on workplace mental health.

Our Members

We are member led and expert guided. Our members drive the vision and strategy of the organisation, ensuring we meet the needs of member organisations as well as our overarching vision. Our current members are:

Aetna Insurance

Allen & Overy

Bank of America Merrill Lynch

BNY Mellon

Clifford Chance

Edelman

Goldman Sachs

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited

HSBC

Jardine Matheson Group

J.P. Morgan

Latham & Watkins

Linklaters

Morgan Stanley

Oliver Wyman

The Securities and Futures Commission

Wellington Management

Our team

Dr. Zoe Fortune leads CMHA HK and has extensive experience in the field of mental health. She holds a PhD in Health Services Research from the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, is trained as a Mental Health First Aid Instructor.

Dr Zoe Fortune

Chief Executive Officer

Dr. Zoe Fortune leads CMHA HK and has extensive experience in the field of mental health. She holds a PhD in Health Services Research from the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, is trained as a Mental Health First Aid Instructor.

Rhiannon has extensive administration and events experience from the UK and in Hong Kong. Rhiannon is a qualified Mental Health First Aid Instructor and has attend the ASIST course.

Rhiannon Rate

Administation & Events

Rhiannon has extensive administrative and events experience from the UK and in Hong Kong. Rhiannon is a qualified Mental Health First Aid Instructor and has attend the ASIST course.

Gillian has extensive health promotion experience, providing knowledge translation, evaluation and project management support to mental health and addictions programs. She holds a Master of PublicHealth from Queen’s University in Canada.

Gillian Pritchard

Research, Communications & Member Engagement Officer

Gillian has extensive health promotion experience, providing knowledge translation, evaluation and project management support to mental health and addictions programs. She holds a Master of Public Health from Queen’s University in Canada.

1%

of employees report work related stress

1 days

per person per year of productivity loss can be attributed to ill mental health

1%

of people believe their industry needs more support dealing with mental health in the workplace

1%

of workplace survey respondents felt they would be penalized for talking about mental health